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Technology

CLEARANCE L3SYSTEMS 17SEE ALSO FILE 07

TVA technology is analogue by design: in the TVA, analogue machines kept getting better and digital never arrived. Standard issue kit is in File 07; this file covers everything seen on screen.

SPOILER WARNING

This archive file covers Loki seasons 1 and 2, Deadpool & Wolverine and later appearances in full. Expect spoilers.

01Field Equipment

TEMPAD: TemPad; Handheld device that opens Time Doors and scans for variance. It needs charging, which matters on Lamentis-1. Sylvie stole Renslayer's as a child.
DOOR: Time Door; The glowing portal a TemPad opens to any time and place.
RESET: Reset Charge; Erases a branched timeline. Sylvie stole them to bomb the timeline; Dox used them to destroy branches.
STICK: Time Stick; A Hunter's baton. It can slow a target, and prunes.
COLLAR: Prisoner Collar; Jumps the wearer back in time when triggered. Its on-screen name is not confirmed; it is often called a time collar.
CUBE: Time Cube; Used on Hunter X-5 during interrogation.

02Headquarters Systems

CHRONO: Chronomonitors; The timeline displays, built as custom screens about seven feet wide.
CELL: Time Cell; Traps a prisoner in a repeating memory.
THEATER: Time Theater; Plays back any variant's life, including its future.
SUPPR: Magic Suppression; Magic and Infinity Stones do not work inside the TVA. Shut down when O.B. rebooted the system.
HANDBK: TVA Handbook; Written by O.B.; a copy reached young Victor Timely in 1868. A new edition followed, co-written with Timely.

03The Temporal Loom

LOOM: Temporal Loom; Turns raw time into the physical timeline. Built for one timeline, and secretly a fail-safe that would delete the branches and the TVA. Destroyed by Loki.
AURA: Temporal Aura; A unique signature. Only He Who Remains, his variants or Miss Minutes could grant access to the Loom.
XTRCT: Temporal Aura Extractor; O.B.'s device for pulling Loki out of the time stream.
TPM: Throughput Multiplier; Built by O.B. and Timely to let the Loom cope with more branches. It worked, but not for infinite ones.
SUIT: Temporal Core Suit; Protects against temporal radiation, which ages the suits themselves.

04Outside the Rules

RIPPER: Time Ripper; Mr. Paradox's device for speeding up the end of a universe. Built without his superiors' knowledge; destroyed on Earth-10005.

Related effects: time-slipping (jumping uncontrollably through time) and spaghettification (people, branches and buildings unravelling into strands as timelines die).

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